Read more about the highlights from Fastmarkets’ annual Middle East Iron and Steel conference, which was held on 18-20 November in Dubai.

Watch this interview with Fastmarkets' in-house expert, Jennifer Coskren, director of wood products and timber, to learn more about the state of the US housing market and a look ahead to 2025.

The heightened importance for the steel reinforcing bar (rebar) industry was apparent to market participants immediately, and has expanded to include multiple arms of the wider construction sector, including merchant bar, beams and wire rod, according to multiple sources in the rebar and general construction markets contacted by Fastmarkets on Wednesday October 2. The Category 4 […]

Colombian steelmakers conditioned the viability of building the country's first flat steel plant on the adoption of trade defense measures against imports, the companies said on Friday, September 6.

In the ever-evolving landscape of the US housing market, recent trends reveal a complex interplay between lumber prices, construction activity and broader economic indicators

Are fluctuating raw material costs worsening the US housing affordability crisis? Urgent action is needed to preserve homebuying opportunities, as explored by the Fastmarkets team

Extreme weather phenomenon, including catastrophic hurricanes, is driving increasing adoption of metal roofing and therefore Galvalume, market participants said during a trade show in Florida

The ongoing Federal Reserve rate stagnation is having a ripple effect across the wood products market and the broader economy, affecting everything from homebuying to the lumber industry

US construction contractors – including for residential, commercial and manufacturing facilities – have reported long delays and unpredictability in obtaining electrical transformers. This is due to inadequate electrical steel supplies amid missing investment decisions in the US to expand production of the material

The US steel industry’s preponderance of electric-arc furnace (EAF) capacity may be a double-edged sword when it comes to collecting green steel premiums, market sources have told Fastmarkets